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...unclear what Dean Sperry’s comments implied. The University archives and the Andover-Theological manuscript archives have no copies of any correspondence between Sannwald and Sperry from the 1930s. Regardless, this letter raises serious questions about Harvard’s memory of its lost...
Prompted by this writer’s curiosity, a recent investigation into Sannwald’s archived file by The Crimson complicates Sannwald’s presumed blamelessness. In a letter dated July 1946, Dean Sperry wrote to Grabau that he had heard from Sannwald in either 1936 or 1937. He wrote that Sannwald invited him to Germany to see “the wonderful rebirth the nation was having under Hitler...
...letter continues with Sperry wishing that Sannwald “might have gone on quietly teaching at Tübingen...
Visiting Professor Herrick Chapman, an expert on the aftermath of World War II, proposes two sides to commemorating war dead like Sannwald and his peers. “It’s appropriate to be inclusive,” says Chapman, but inclusiveness is also “a strategy to evade…issues of responsibility and guilt. Even when people face terrible choices, no one is quite let off the hook...
Under an opposite, if unclear standard, Adolf Sannwald lost his life. Can we pass judgment on men who died under the confusing and terrifying specter of war? “I guess, at a certain point, we concede that death in battle, at least for honorable soldiers, and even for a bad cause, may finally erase all politics,” says Maier. “How else do we pick...